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gpl1+ gpl2+ false detection
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Description
### Description
Some of the gpl1 rules matches very few text and have
probability to match real code.
for example:
```src/licensedcode/data/rules/gpl-1.0-plus_50.RULE```
only contains 'gpl1+'
On some of my scanned code, I have some variable named i_gpl1, which is incremented in a for loop, so several occurence of
```i_gpl1++```
scancode matches this as gpl-1.0-plus with a score of 100.
I also have another variable named i_gpl2, which also gets incremented, and the rule
```src/licensedcode/data/rules/gpl-2.0-plus_188.RULE``` will match it as gpl-2.0-plus
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